New on audio from Stephen Ruler…an unabridged novella’as artful as anything he has ever written.’ (Booklist)

Climb aboard Stationary Bicycle — a streamlined fever imagine a tale, in which an ordinary home object assumes otherworldly forces and a familiar journey takes a terrifying twist.

When commercial musician Richard Sifkitz finally gets around to having that physical he’d been putting off for a long time, and his cholesterol comes back dangerously high, he does what so many thirty- about Stationary Bike something, rubbish food-eating sofa potatoes have done before him: he buys a stationary bike, and vows to ride it regularly.

Unlike many a mid-life workout convert, however, Richard actually begins to ride his new stationary bike. A lot. Shortly he’s spending therefore much time on his bike that he decides to place his artistic talents to use and color a mural around the wall structure opposite his stationary bike. But it works out that Richard’s mural is usually no regular picture — and soon his stationary bike is definitely taking him areas he doesn’t want to visit…and can’t stay away from.

A riveting riff on creative annoyance, midlife mortality, and hard-won redemption, Stationary Bicycle is a thrill trip that could come only from the mind of Stephen Ruler.